Single Cell Analysis of Human Thyroid Reveals the Transcriptional Signatures of Aging
- Authors
- Hong, Yourae; Kim, Hyun Jung; Park, Seongyeol; Yi, Shinae; Lim, Mi Ae; Lee, Seong Eun; Chang, Jae Won; Won, Ho-Ryun; Kim, Je-Ryong; Ko, Hyemi; Kim, Seon-Young; Kim, Seon-Kyu; Park, Jong-Lyul; Chu, In-Sun; Kim, Jin Man; Kim, Kun Ho; Lee, Jeong Ho; Ju, Young Seok; Shong, Minho; Koo, Bon Seok; Park, Woong-Yang; Kang, Yea Eun
- Issue Date
- Apr-2023
- Publisher
- The Endocrine Society
- Keywords
- aging; fibrosis; metallothionein; single-cell RNA sequencing; thyroid
- Citation
- Endocrinology, v.164, no.4
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Endocrinology
- Volume
- 164
- Number
- 4
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2021.sw.kumedicine/63793
- DOI
- 10.1210/endocr/bqad029
- ISSN
- 0013-7227
1945-7170
- Abstract
- The thyroid gland plays a critical role in the maintenance of whole-body metabolism. However, aging frequently impairs homeostatic maintenance by thyroid hormones due to increased prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation, and fibrosis. To understand the specific aging-related changes of endocrine function in thyroid epithelial cells, we performed single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) of 54 726 cells derived from pathologically normal thyroid tissues from 7 patients who underwent thyroidectomy. Thyroid endocrine epithelial cells were clustered into 5 distinct subpopulations, and a subset of cells was found to be particularly vulnerable with aging, showing functional deterioration associated with the expression of metallothionein (MT) and major histocompatibility complex class II genes. We further validated that increased expression of MT family genes are highly correlated with thyroid gland aging in bulk RNAseq datasets. This study provides evidence that aging induces specific transcriptomic changes across multiple cell populations in the human thyroid gland. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Endocrine Society. All rights reserved.
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